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Thursday, May 5, 2011

Flowers and messages left by passers-by at the impromptu shrine set up in front of the burnt out Stadiou Street branch of Marfin Bank, after last year's senseless, heartless, murderous attack by brutal thugs, an attack which sickened everyone in Greece and resulted in the loss of four lives, Epaminondas Tsakalis, Paraskevi Zoulia and Aggeliki Papathanasopoulou and her unborn child - employees at Greece's Marfin Bank who did not take part in the strike and remained at their desks, on duty - a tragic waste of lives.

Today one year later, the bank's branches are all closed as a mark of respect and mourning and our hearts go out to those three families whose lives have changed forever from that day ...

What we wrote last year is just as relevant today, on the first anniversary of that black day for Greece

'For the people of Athens and Greece it is time to take stock and think carefully about what is next, where do we want to see this country go? Why do we allow the minority to consistently ruin it for the majority?

Let's reflect on something one of our much wiser ancestors said many many years ago...

"Our Democracy is destroying itself because it abused the rights of freedom and equality, because it taught it's citizens to consider insolence as a right, illegal acts as a freedom, rudeness as equality and anarchy as prosperity".

Isocrates (436 - 338 b.C.)

This post is dedicated to to Epaminondas Tsakalis, Paraskevi Zoulia and Aggeliki Papathanasopoulou and her unborn child, and to all those men and women who have lost their lives so totally unnecessarily, in the line of duty, whether directly or indirectly, whether at their desks or in a fighter plane, whether fighting bush fires or pursuing armed and ruthless criminals...

The beautiful song, Ηλιος Θεός ( Sun - God) sung below by Vasilis Skoulas, was written forKostas Iliakis, who fell heroically on the 23rd day of another fateful May some years before in 2006...one of Greece's many heroic pilots who have lost their lives trying to repel Turkish fighter planes in the dangerous zone over the Aegean in order to keep Greece a safe place to live...

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WORLD PHILOSOPHY DAY - QUOTABLE QUOTES

By all means marry;if you get a good wife, you'll be happy.If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

Socrates

I am not an Athenian or a Greek but a citizen of the world.

Diogenes

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

Plutarch

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.Democritus

Time for Jokes...

An Australian decided to write a book about famous churches around the world. So he bought a plane ticket and took a trip to England thinking that he would start by working his way across Europe.

On his first day he was inside a church taking photographs when he noticed a golden telephone mounted on the wall with a sign that read "$10,000.00 per call".

The Australian, being intrigued, asked a priest who was strolling by what the telephone was used for. The priest replied that it was a direct line to heaven and that for $10,000.00 you could talk to God.

The Australian thanked the priest and went on his way.

Next stop was in France. There, at a very large cathedral, he saw the same golden telephone ...